[Rd] Debate: Shall some of Microsoft R Open Code be ported to mainstream R?

[Avraham Adler]

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What concerns me first and foremost is that the licensure would have
to be ironclad (including for commercial use like vanilla R now) as
well as ensuring that R remains completely FLOSS. Anything “added” to
R has to be a no-strings-attached gift to R.

Also, I would think that it would have to play nice with existing
workflows (like OpenBLAS instead of MKL) unless there is such a
benefit that it is worth breaking compatibility.

Avi

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Kenny Bell <kmbell56 at gmail.com> wrote:
> User here: incorporating Intel's MKL, as MRO does, would be a very welcome
> addition.
>
> I was an MRO user before and it improved my experience with medium data
> immensely.
>
> They did, however, leave behind bugs here and there, especially related to
> development with Rcpp, so I switched back to vanilla R.
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 9:42 AM Juan Telleria <jtelleriar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear R Developers,
>>
>> First of all, I would like to thank you Jeroen Ooms for taking the binary
>> Window Builds from Duncan. I firmly believe that the R Community will
>> benefit a lot from his work.
>>
>> However, the debate I would like to open is about if some of Microsoft R
>> Open Code shall be ported from R Open to Mainstream R.
>>
>> There are some beneficts in R Open such as multithreaded performance:
>> https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/rro/multithread/
>>
>> Maybe, the R Consortium, and in particular, Microsoft R Team, could
>> collaborate, if appropriate, in such duty.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Juan Telleria
>>
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